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Rising 6Th Grade • Summer 2019 Rising 6th Grade • Summer 2019 Blended The Boy, The Bird, & The by Sharon M. Draper Coffin Maker Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose by Matilda Woods black father and white mother struggle Alberto, the town's coffin maker, and to share custody, never feels whole, Tito, a runaway boy, both lonely after especially as racial tensions affect her suffering tragic losses, learn the power school, her parents both become of friendship as they try to escape the engaged, and she and her stepbrother shadows of their pasts. are stopped by police. The Last-Day-of-Summer Bloom by Lamar Giles by Nicola Skinner When two adventurous cousins Sorrel Fallowfield is so good at being accidentally extend the last day of good that teachers come to her when summer by freezing time, they discover they need help remembering the school that the secrets they find hidden rules. Luckily, Sorrel doesn’t have any between the unmoving seconds, trouble following them, until the day she minutes and hours are not as much fun discovers a faded packet of Surprising as expected. Seeds buried under a tree in her backyard. Now she’s hearing voices, seeing things, Out of Left Field experiencing an almost unstoppable urge to plant the seeds in some very unusual places. by Ellen Klages Disguising herself as a boy to try out for the 1958 Little League season, Diary of an Awesome talented 10-year-old Katy easily makes Friendly Kid : Rowley the team but is immediately ousted Jefferson's Journal when her sercret is discovered, by Jeff Kinney prompting her to tap her classroom Greg Heffley's best friend and knowledge of the burgeoning Civil biographer shares first-person insights Rights Movement to prove that girls can do anything into their middle-school experiences that boys can do. By the award-winning author of The while making a decided mess of Greg's Green Glass Sea. life story. By the award-winning creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Pizzasaurus Rex by Justin Wagner The Gauntlet After inventing a device that allows Rex by Karuna Riazi Raditude, the Pizzasaurus, to enter his Sucked into a mechanical board game dimension, Jeremy Duderman finds and forced to defeat its diabolical himself on the frontline when Rex is architect in order to free themselves followed by Emperor Buzzkill and his and others trapped with them, 12-year- horde of minions. old Farah and her two best friends receive assistance from a lizard guide and an aeronaut while battling fantastical beasts and solving difficult puzzles. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 6th Grade Page 1 of 5 Rising 6th Grade • Summer 2019 Fing Squirm by David Walliams by Carl Hiaasen Myrtle Meek has everything she could This summer, Billy will fly across the possibly want. But everything isn't country, hike a mountain, float a enough. She wants more, more, more! river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot When Myrtle declares she wants a fing, down a spy drone, save a neighbor's there's only one problem. What is a cat, save an endangered panther, and fing? Mr and Mrs Meek will do anything then try to save his own father who to keep their darling daughter happy. left him when he was three. Their desperate quest leads to the depths of the jungliest jungle where the rarest creatures can be Caterpillar Summer found. by Gillian McDunn Helping to care for her beloved Shouting at the Rain special-needs brother in the years by Lynda Mullaly Hunt after their father's passing, Cat suffers Struggling with her unconventional a personal setback that prompts her home life and growing distance from to visit the home of the grandparents a friend, a young meteorology she has never met, where she finds enthusiast leans on the support of renewal in simply being able to be a her Cape Cod neighbors and bonds kid. with a tragedy-marked newcomer who helps her redefine her The Button War: A tale of perspectives on family. the Great War by Avi Cosmo: Space Aces 1 Running with a group of friends who by Ian Flynn entertain themselves by coming up Cosmo and his crew of Martians with increasingly risky dares, 12-year- embark on a series of adventures old Patryk watches as their tiny Polish throughout the solar system. village is occupied by a series of hostile Graphic Novel nations throughout the Great War, before his friends begin looting the bodies of soldiers as part of an increasingly dangerous competition. Kid Normal Merci Suárez Changes by Greg James Gears Murph Cooper, eleven, is out of his by Meg Medina depth when his mother unknowingly Merci Suárez relies on her close, enrolls him in a school for extended family as she goes through superheroes, but his normalcy may many changes during her sixth- be just what is needed to defeat King grade year at Florida's Seaward Nektar. Pines Academy. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 6th Grade Page 2 of 5 Rising 6th Grade • Summer 2019 Speechless Everything Else in the by Adam P. Schmitt Universe Informed that he will be expected to by Tracy Holczer say a few words at his cousin's wake, When Lucy's practical and orderly 13-year-old Jimmy struggles to come father is sent to Vietnam to serve as up with something nice to say about an Army doctor, she is forced to his bullying, destructive cousin before move in with her superstitious and realizing that the words that are truly quirky relatives. She eagerly heard are the ones that matter the anticipates her father's return, only most. to find him a very changed person. New Kid It Wasn't Me by Jerry Craft by Dana Alison Levy Enrolled in a prestigious private school When Theo's photography project is where he is one of only a few students mysteriously vandalized at school of color, talented seventh-grade artist there are five suspected students Jordan finds himself torn between the who all say, "It wasn't me." Theo just worlds of his Washington Heights wants to forget about the humiliating apartment home and the upscale incident but his favorite teacher is circles of Riverdale Academy. Graphic determined to get to the bottom of it. Novel The Unsung Hero of Last of the Name by Rosanne Parry Birdsong USA Arriving in 1863 New York City with by Brenda Woods his older sister, 12-year-old Danny Gabriel, twelve, gains new reluctantly pretends to be a girl in perspective when he becomes order to accompany his sister into friends with Meriwether, a World War domestic service and avoid II hero who has recently returned to recruitment into the army. the unwelcoming Jim Crow South. Orange for the Sunsets Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A by Tina Athaide Graphic Novel Two 12-year-old best friends who by Rey Terciero have never cared about their An adaptation of the coming-of-age differences are torn apart by novel Little Women features the four president Idi Amin's decision to March sisters as they struggle with expel Indians from 1972 Uganda, school woes, health issues, boy an order that is complicated by an troubles, and personal identity. educational opportunity and Graphic novel escalating community unrest. All books published 2018-2019 unless otherwise noted. Summaries written by publishers with modifications as needed. Rising 6th Grade Page 3 of 5 Rising 6th Grade • Summer 2019 The Neverending Story Code Word Courage by Michael Ende by Kirby Larson Bastian, a lonely boy, steps through In September 1944 eleven-year-old the pages of a book and finds himself Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, caught up in a dangerous quest in a eagerly waiting her older brother's magical kingdom known as Fantastica. return from boot camp. Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear. When the two young men go off to war, Bear The Not-So-Boring becomes the thread that ties them all together. Letters of Private Nobody by Matthew Landis The Remarkable Journey Seventh grader Oliver, a Civil War buff, of Coyote Sunrise is partnered with two misfits, Ella, who by Dan Gemeinhart is on the verge of failing all her Living on the road in an old school classes, and Kevin, who is Oliver's bus with her dad after losing her lunch companion--to create a mother and sisters, 12-year-old documentary about the wartime Coyote devises an elaborate plan to experience of the Civil War. convince her father to make a first trip home to Washington state in five years, a journey Sheets marked by an eclectic group of passengers they meet by Brenna Thummler along the way. When Marjorie, a practical teen in charge of her family's laundry Pay attention, Carter business, encounters Wendell, a Jones ghost seeking purpose in the by Gary D Schmidt forbidden human world, the pair When a mysterious English butler must find a solution to endell'W s appears one morning and stays to hauntings that are causing chaos in help his troubled family, young Carter Marjorie's life. Graphic novel struggles to navigate middle school under the watch of the resented Where the Watermelons newcomer, who promotes challenging Grow notions of decorum. by Cindy Baldwin Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Squint Maryville, North Carolina, tries to by Chad Morris come to terms with her mother's Flint desperately wants to win a comic mental illness while her father book art contest so that he and his struggles to save the farm from a new friend McKell will be better record-breaking drought.
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